Agenda: Warm Up Final Presentations The Explorers Recap Moving Picture Show Atlantic Slave Trade & Columbian Trade HW: Slave Trade WS Agenda:
Warm Up List a few things all the explorers wanted to find as a result of their voyages
The explorers: an overview
Prince Henry the Navigator Main initiator of the Age of Exploration Portuguese Prince Very wealthy First to sail down coast of Africa, didn’t make it far Inspired Dias and da Gama and other great explorers
Bartolomeu Dias 1488, manages to sail around the southern tip of Africa, eliminating the land trades routes through the Middle East. He wants to go to India, but the crew refuses.
Vasco Da Gama Portuguese (1497-1499) Sailed around the south of Africa to India First person to link Europe to India and the East
Francisco Pizarro 1524-1541, Spanish Conquistador Sailed from Spain to South America Conquered the Incan Empire
Jacques Cartier Originally set sail from France to locate an Asian trade route in 1534. He enters North America through Canada, and sails to the Great Lakes. No trade route is found, but they would attempt settlement in the 1540s.
Hernando Cortez Spanish, 1511-1547 Conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico Began Spanish colonization of the New World
Ferdinand Magellan Portuguese, 1519-1522 He died on the voyage in the Philippines His crew finishes voyage and is first to circumnavigate the globe (sail around the world) 5 Ships with 270 Men leave, 1 ship and 18 men return. None of the original captains made it back
Francis Drake English Explorer, 1577-1580 Took 3 years and successfully circumnavigated the globe (2nd person in history after Magellan. In 1588 helps defeat the Spanish Armada as it attacks the English Navy. Francis Drake